当我们有许多可用选项但仅会选择一个或两个时,将使用下拉框。
这是带有一个下拉框的表单的示例HTML代码-
<form action = "/cgi-bin/dropdown.py" method = "post" target = "_blank"> <select name = "dropdown"> <option value = "Maths" selected>Maths</option> <option value = "Physics">Physics</option> </select> <input type = "submit" value = "Submit"/> </form>
此代码的结果是以下形式-
Submit
以下是dropdown.py脚本,用于处理Web浏览器给出的输入。
#!/usr/bin/python
# Import modules for CGI handling
import cgi, cgitb
# Create instance of FieldStorage
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
# Get data from fields
if form.getvalue('dropdown'):
subject = form.getvalue('dropdown')
else:
subject = "Not entered"
print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n"
print "<html>"
print "<head>"
print "<title>Dropdown Box - Sixth CGI Program</title>"
print "</head>"
print "<body>"
print "<h2> Selected Subject is %s</h2>" % subject
print "</body>"
print "</html>"